All programme items

Katharina Klement

Ecophony – every voice counts. An acoustic soil survey | OPEN FIELDS – Art and Agriculture

Elevate Arts 2023

Elevate Festival - Music, Arts and Political Discourse

Elevate is an annual interdisciplinary festival held in various venues in Graz, Austria, with a strong focus on cultural and socio-political topics.

Eduard Balula, Margo Sarkisova

WITNESSES

The works at the Graz State Armory by the Ukrainian artists told how Ukrainians themselves think about the war in their country, which had already lasted more than a hundred days.

Utrumque

Work

Soundinstallation im Forum Stadtpark und im umliegenden Park im Rahmen des ELEVATE Festivals 2022.

Nicole Pruckermayr

Hier könnte ein Baum stehen!

With the eco-social art project an artificial tree is developed from the wood of a real tree. It is based on the geometry of nature, a fractal structure.

Elevate Arts 2022

Elevate Festival

A festival for MUSIC, ART AND POLITICAL DISCOURSE in Graz

Zara Alexandrova und Zoran Georgiev

Digital Dictatorship

Diese Installation war im Jahr 2022 im Rahmen des ELEVATE Festivals am Schloßberg in Graz zu sehen.

Alfred Lenz

L201 | 2022

The art space L201 was further developed in 2022 and hosted three new projects. The thujas next to the art space were removed and replaced with a metal grid wall eight meters wide and four meters high. This wall thus becomes an advertising space or, better said, an alternative to advertising billboards on highly frequented roads.

NEU! (NEW!)

Interventions in the Spirit of Renewal

Scott Clifford Evans & Anna Jermolaewa, Florian Berger and the Total Refusal collective (Susanna Flock, Leonhard Müllner, Adrian Jonas Haim, Robin Klengel) explore growing up in a society marked by crises and work on NEW things with young people. The project was realised in Passail, Knittelfeld and Kindberg.

N-O-S-W – Nie Ohne Seife Waschen 2022

NESW - Never Wash Without Soap 2022: 4 excursions to all points of the compass

N-O-S-W (N North, O [Ost] East, S South, W West) in the cardinal directions starting in Graz four new routes are traveled every year in these "Sunday discovery tours". The emphasis is on educating people about the permanent and temporary art projects that the institute has initiated or accompanied. Historical works of art in public space are in focus as well and questions about their representative function and social interaction are raised.

OPEN FIELDS

Art and Agriculture

The Institute for Art in Public Space Styria combines the realms of art and agriculture with this project. It included 12 sub-project of various international artists and artist collectives and just as many farms in Styria.

Die Straße gehört uns! (The street is ours!)

XENOS (Maryam Mohammadi and Joachim Hainzl)

Protests were often accompanied by slogans and graffiti on the walls and in the streets. A wide range of event formats presents and discusses political graffiti as a form of protest for democracy and human rights.

zweintopf

ONE MONUMENT IN TIME

We can do it!

XENOS (Maryam Mohammadi and Joachim Hainzl)

In addition to the photographic works of the life of Afghan women at Europaplatz, the XENOS association offers a varied range of art talks and discussions on the topic.

Anderwald + Grond

Construction site as far as the eye can see: revisited

To mark the tenth anniversary of the completion of the Joanneum Quarter, KiöR is publishing the pictorial supplements on the construction site designed by Anderwald + Grond as a collection.

Elevate Arts 2021

Elevate Festival

In cooperation with the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria, Elevate has invited Brian Eno and Zanshin to Graz this year.

GrazRand

Book presentation in and around Graz

In the form of a city tour, GrazRand focuses on the periphery: for one week, an interdisciplinary team investigated the city's borderline.

Alfred Lenz

L201

Art room at the Landesstraße 201 in Studenzen.

Grazer Poesieautomaten

A lyrical in(ter)vention in urban space by Matthias Göritz

Three vending machines, normally filled with children's toys, refreshing sweets or condoms, now dispense poetry. They are located in the inner city of Graz in the Joanneum quarter, on the Schloßberg and at the Forum Stadtpark.

Wednesdays at the Mobile Pavilion

Guided walks with Alexandra Riewe

Alexandra Riewe invites you to visit the mobile pavilion as part of the STEIERMARK SCHAU 2021 and accompanies site-specific tours of art in public space.